[BBC] Course on Programming for Evolutionary Biology

[Jan Aerts]

Course on Programming for Evolutionary Biology 

When: March 4th - March 20th 2017 

Location: Leipzig, Germany 

Application deadline: December 31st 2016 

Detailed information about the course content and how to apply: 
http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/ 

In this intensive 17 days course, students will learn how to survive in a 
Linux environment, get hands-on experience in two widely used programming 
languages (Python and R), and statistical data analysis. The classes will be 
given by experts in the field and consist of lectures and exercises with 
the computer. The aim of the course is to provide the students with the 
necessary background and skills to perform computational analyses with a 
focus on solving research questions related to genomics and evolution. The 
philosophy of the course will be “learning by doing”, which means that the 
computational skills will be taught using examples and real data from 
evolutionary biology for the exercises. During the course, students will 
also propose projects of their own interest and perform them as final 
projects in small groups under the supervision of a teaching assistant. 
This summer school is open for students from all countries and targeted 
toward PhD students and postdocs of evolutionary biology or related 
research fields with no or little programming experience who want to 
become proficient in computational evolutionary biology in a couple of 
weeks. 

The course takes place at the University of Leipzig.

-- 
Prof Jan Aerts
ESAT/STADIUS, Visual Data Analysis Lab
KU Leuven, Belgium
+16321053
http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/stadius/
http://vda-lab.be